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Facebook reported in their SEC filing that they had 170M active US accounts, about 55 accounts for every 100 Americans. Interesting gap, especially because this survey only looks at US internet users and doesn't ask about active. I wonder if this is due to multiple accounts per person, bad facebook reporting, or bad survey results.
Facebook reported in their SEC filing that they had 170M active US accounts, about 55 accounts for every 100 Americans. Interesting gap, especially because this survey only looks at US internet users and doesn't ask about active. I wonder if this is due to multiple accounts per person, bad facebook reporting, or bad survey results.
Facebook reported in their SEC filing that they had 170M active US accounts, about 55 accounts for every 100 Americans. Interesting gap, especially because this survey only looks at US internet users and doesn't ask about active. I wonder if this is due to multiple accounts per person, bad facebook reporting, or bad survey results.
Most people I know have a FB account for their dog. Is it just me?
Your initial takeaway might simply be "wow, a lot less people user Twitter than Facebook." However, I remember seeing stats a year or two ago suggesting that 50% of US users had Facebook and less than 10% had Twitter. If both sets of numbers are accurately comparable (and they may not be), that would suggest that Facebook may be on a slow decline while Twitter is still growing.
twitter is where you find people you want to know, facebook is where you find people you used to know ...
Twitter is useful for me as an aggregator for gathering twitter posts by people I'm interested in. All of my family members who do use twitter also have the FBTwitter thing hooked up so I'm not missing anything from them by ignoring twitter.
Personally, I find very little value in twitter. Maybe it's because I'm in the wrong demographic or my social circle doesn't use it, I don't know. I could imagine a world where we posted everything through twitter, but in reality almost nobody I know personally actually uses twitter.
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Does Twitter suggest an alternative username? Even if they do, the problem with Twitter growth is that nobody will follow a new user unless they know you in real life. I have the impression that for new users it's mostly s feed reader with ads and Foursquare checkins.
> I have the impression that for new users it's mostly s feed reader with ads and Foursquare checkins There's another way to use it? Seriously, I don't get how to use Twitter. If I follow someone, how do I comment on what they said? Does everyone see that? What exactly is Twitter trying to do? I have never 'got' it. It's looks to me like an IM service crossed with RSS, except I can't figure out how to do any messagin…
1. Every tweet on public profiles are ... public. Anyone can read them but not all your followers see all your tweets (more later).
2. If your tweet starts with an @mention (as in, the first character of the tweet) then only the user you @mention will see the tweet in their feed (as well as anyone else you @mention in the tweet). It does not display on your followers feeds. That is, unless, you both have mutual followers.
It's a hack and many people don't understand it.
747 responses. Not statistically significant at all. Extrapolating anything from these results could be very misleading obviously.
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Does Twitter suggest an alternative username? Even if they do, the problem with Twitter growth is that nobody will follow a new user unless they know you in real life. I have the impression that for new users it's mostly s feed reader with ads and Foursquare checkins.
> I have the impression that for new users it's mostly s feed reader with ads and Foursquare checkins There's another way to use it? Seriously, I don't get how to use Twitter. If I follow someone, how do I comment on what they said? Does everyone see that? What exactly is Twitter trying to do? I have never 'got' it. It's looks to me like an IM service crossed with RSS, except I can't figure out how to do any messagin…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Does Twitter suggest an alternative username? Even if they do, the problem with Twitter growth is that nobody will follow a new user unless they know you in real life. I have the impression that for new users it's mostly s feed reader with ads and Foursquare checkins.
> I have the impression that for new users it's mostly s feed reader with ads and Foursquare checkins There's another way to use it? Seriously, I don't get how to use Twitter. If I follow someone, how do I comment on what they said? Does everyone see that? What exactly is Twitter trying to do? I have never 'got' it. It's looks to me like an IM service crossed with RSS, except I can't figure out how to do any messagin…